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Tornado Warning 7, NWS State College, PA

June 15, 2000Fulton County, Pennsylvania

NWS State College, PA issued this tornado warning at Jun 15, 2000, 2:05 PM EDT for Fulton County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 25 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued
Jun 15, 2000, 2:05 PM EDT (18:05 UTC)
Expired
Jun 15, 2000, 2:30 PM EDT
In force
25 min
Issued by
NWS State College, PA
Area
Whole counties

County Fulton County, PA

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 15, 2:26 PM EDTThunderstorm WindWarfordsburg, PA5 cars and an ambulance were blown off Route 70 near Exit 33.

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.

The nearest sounding before it

Washington/Dulle, VA (KIAD), launched 12:00Z, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 125 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Washington/Dulle, VA at 12:00Z on 2000-06-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 59 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Washington/Dulle, VA at 12:00Z on 2000-06-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 91 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
59 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-184 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
598 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
91 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
103 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

813 
WFUS51 KCTP 151805
TORCTP
PAC057-151830-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA
205 PM EDT THU JUN 15 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN STATE COLLEGE PA HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  FULTON COUNTY.

* UNTIL 230 PM EDT.

* AT 204 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  THUNDERSTORM WITH A DEVELOPING TORNADO 12 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
  VALLEY-HI...OR ABOUT 15 MILES SOUTHEAST OF BEDFORD...MOVING
  NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  VALLEY-HI AT 230 PM.

GO TO A BASEMENT OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR.

$$
GRUMM/ONDREJIK

The office that day

Everything else NWS State College, PA issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 15, 12:17 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCTPMcKean58 min
Jun 15, 12:26 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCTPPotter64 min
Jun 15, 12:45 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCTPCambria, Clearfield60 min
Jun 15, 1:54 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCTPBedford, Fulton51 min
Jun 15, 2:20 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCTPCentre, Huntingdon55 min
Jun 15, 2:40 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCTPFranklin65 min
Jun 15, 3:15 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCTPMifflin45 min

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Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.